The ether was wearing off. The acid was long gone. But the mescaline was running strong. Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour's all waiting. Then about halfway through its second hour, you start cursing the creep who burned you because nothing's happening. And then...zang!
Raoul Duke
Johnny Depp · 35 quotes
Dr. Gonzo
6 quotes
Gonzo
Benicio del Toro · 6 quotes
Narrator
Donald Morrow · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Gonzo & Raoul Duke (6), Narrator & Raoul Duke (3), Raoul Duke & Dr. Gonzo (2)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas quotes
Page 3 of 3There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
There was no sense in blowing everything away for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.
There was only one road back to L.A., U.S. interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker, and Barstow, and Berdoo. Then on to the Hollywood freeway straight into frantic oblivion. Safety... obscurity... just another freak in the freak kingdom. We'd gone in search of the American dream, it had been a lame **** around. A waste of time. There was no point in looking back. **** no, not today, thank you kindly. My heart was filled with joy. I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger, a man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident. The bolded lines are from the film version.
We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know.
[yelling at a crowd in a parking lot]
You people voted for Hubert Humphrey! And you killed Jesus!